Invalid-bed table.



No. 647,527; Patente'd Apr. [7, I900.

W. SCHLEUNING.

INVALID BED TABLE.

(Application filed June 5, 1899) 0 Model.)

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VVILHELM SOHLEUNING, OF FRE IHUNG, GERMANY.

INVALID-BED TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 647,527, dated April17, 1900. Application filed June 5,1899. Serial No. 719,497. (No model.)

T0 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILHELM SOHLEUNING, a subject of the Grand Duke ofBaden, residin g atFreihung,Oberpfalz,Bavaria,Germany, have invented anImprovement in Invalid- Bed Tables, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention has relation to improvements in invalid-beds; and theobject is to provide a bed of ordinary construction with a'shelf ortable-board so arranged and constructed and supported that it may bemoved up and down in a vertical plane to suit the convenience of aperson occupying the bed and may also be set and supported at anydesired taken as a part thereof, and wherein is shown a perspective viewof a bedstead having the improvements operatively applied and connectedthereto, the shelf or table being shown both as turned up into verticalposition and also as turned down into position for use and the variouspositions to which the shelf or table may be turned shown in dotted.lines.

Referring to the drawing, B designates a bedstead, which may be of anyapproved construction. On the legs of the head-frame of the bedstead areslidingly fitted sleeves T, provided with a vertical slot t and providedwith a laterally-projecting plate or lug t, to which is pivotallyconnected at short lever h, having an eccentric lower or inner end whichengages the surface of the bed-post, so that the sleeves T may beadjustingly moved up or down vertically and then set in the desiredposition by the engagement of the lever. In the lower end of the slot ofthe head-frame are pivotal boltst to which are pivotally con nectedsupporting-arms A, extending the required distance, and on the upper andfree ends of which is supported the shelf or table P, as will behereinafter more fully specified.

In the supporting bars or arms A is formed a longitudinal slot F of adetermined length and wherein is slidingly arranged a bolt f, to whichis suitably connected a brace-rod H, having its rear end suitablyconnected in the vertical slot 15 to slide vertically therein, so thatthe supporting-frame may be turned up vertically, asindicated in thedrawing, it being readily perceived that by loosening the screw f, sothat the end of the brace-bars II are made slidable, the frame may beturned up to a vertical position, in which movement the rear end of thebrace-rods slide down in the slotsin the sleeves, and then by tighteningthe screw fthe frame is held in a set position, and when it isdesired'to turn the frame down for use, the screw f is again loosenedand the frame swung downward to the de sired position, and when itreaches such position the screwfis again tightened and the frame, withthe shelf or table, is held set and fixed in usable position. The tableor shelf P is pivotally secured and supported between the outer ends ofthe bars A, and on the end of one of the bars A is fixed a small pinionor worm G, which is engaged by a screw g, let through a threaded lug gprojecting from the table or shelf.

It will be perceived from'the foregoing description, in connection withthe drawing, that, by turning the screw 9 into engagement with thepinion or worm and the threaded con nection to the table, the table canbe turned on its pivotal supports to any desired angle, and that thetable will be held at such angle by the screw-and-pinion connection.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim is 1. In an invalid-bedtable, the combination with the head-frame, of the bed, ofverticallymovable sleeves, on the posts of the headframe, formed withvertical slots, supportingarms pivotally connected to the said sleeves,brace-rods having one end pivotally and slidingly connected to saidsleeves and the other end pivotally and slidingly connected to the saidsupporting-arms, and a table or shelf pivotally supported between thefree ends of said supporting-arms, substantially as de scribed.

2. In an invalid-bed table, the combination with the head-frame of thebed, of verticallymovable sleeves, on the posts of the headframe, formedwith vertical slots, su pportingarms pivotally connected to the saidsleeves, brace-rods having one end pivotally and slidingly connected, tosaid sleeves and the other end pivotally and slidingly connected to thesaid supporting-arms, a table or shelf pivotally supported between thefree ends of the supporting-arms, and means to hold the table at anyangle on its pivots, substantially as described.

3. In an invalid-bed table, the combination with the head-frame of thebed, of verticallymovable sleeves, on the posts of the headframe, formedwith vertical slots, supportingarms pivotally connected to the saidsleeves,

